I did use a downloaded iso image of Linux Mint 14 to install the OS. I agree the initial set up is pretty easy. The problem came with the updates. Without the updates the wireless is flaky, but with the updates the connectivity is much better. I was trying to do the updates wirelessly and it kept timing out. So I moved the system to a place where I could connect by ethernet directly to my router and then the updating process went smoothly. Once all of the updates were in place I moved it back to its previous location and the wireless connection is mostly reliable. My set up at that location involves 6 machines all hooked to a KVM switch with the ethernet connected to an 8 port switch which is connected to a linksys range extender which connects to my wireless router which is connected to my ISP's modem. Not the most elegant solution, but it mostly works most of the time. About every 2 or 3 days I need to reboot the range extender, but I do not know why it will suddenly lose connectivity.
Thanks for stopping by. I need all the help I can get with Linux and your input is appreciated.
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I know Mint will dual boot, I have it on a laptop with Vista. Mint is an offshoot of UBUNTU and uses its repositories. I presume it will work just fine with an AMD cpu, but I am totally ignorant of how it might work with an AMD GPU.
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It looks like all of the fun is over! No more GPU. I have dropped from 4,691,915 per day on 5/2 when I still had a full cache of GPU WUs, to 518,081 today. The GPU processing got me over 1 Billion points, and number 26 world wide, and helped the team significantly between me and Ryan's GPUs. I thought I would quickly drop in rank, but it looks like all of the people that were going to pass me, had more GPU than me. I will probably now do about 500k per day, until the next GPU project. Hopefully the teams rank will not suffer.

Statistics Date Total Run Time
(y:d:h:m:s) Points Generated
05/10/2013 0:126:11:57:19 518,081
05/09/2013 0:100:18:49:00 448,031
05/07/2013 0:120:00:46:41 1,251,611
05/06/2013 0:115:09:06:00 1,568,280
05/05/2013 0:106:06:51:57 1,711,904
05/04/2013 0:112:13:01:15 1,926,869
05/03/2013 0:107:05:51:03 2,650,223
05/02/2013 0:186:19:19:07 4,691,915

Ain't that the truth. I am back to being an average joe now with only around 100k ppd from cpu. Would like to see FAAH and CEP2 get finished, so I'm hitting those hard now.

I see we have passed a milestone this evening. We have returned our 6 millionth result. And I missed it a few nights ago when we passed 1500 total years. A fine job by all. Keep on crunching.
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